One of the most reliable ways to limit the access to your website is to block the IP addresses of the individuals that should not be able to open it. There are numerous reasons to do this. As an example, you may want a certain person not to be able to see your Internet site, or you may limit the access for a whole country. You can even block IP addresses if you detect that there are lots of web browser requests from them, if a huge number of spam comments are left within your sites or if a script login page has been loaded numerous times. In all of these cases, the traffic is more than likely fake and has been produced by an automatic bot, so you may safely block any suspicious IP address, to be on the safe side. This way, you shall also prevent the possibility of your web server getting overloaded by many fake requests.

IP Blocking in Shared Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is included with the innovative Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared website hosting accounts. It shall permit you to block addresses with just a few mouse clicks. No coding skills are required, because you will use an intuitive interface - you just need to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address that you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you've added within the exact same section and whitelisting any of them will take just a mouse click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by numerous IPs, you'll be able to block a whole IP range also. This can be performed by omitting the last number of the address. For instance, if you would like to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you just have to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts come with a very simple-to-use IP blocking tool, that will enable you to prohibit individual IPs or even whole networks from accessing your Internet sites with onlya couple of clicks and you won't have any difficulties to accomplish that even if this is your first website hosting account. As soon as you visit the IP Blocking section of the Hepsia CP, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain in question from a drop-down list, then enter the IP address within a box that you'll see there and you will be all set. To prohibit the access for an entire network, you have to leave one or more octets blank. For example, if you input 123.123. and do not input anything within the third and fourth positions, our server shall deny requests from all IP addresses between 123.123.1.1 and 123.123.255.255.